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As someone who has been a web developer since the 90's, this topic brings me back to ~2005 when Google Analytics launched. I thought it was absolutely insane that people would just stick someone else's JavaScript in their pages (and especially on e-commerce sites!).

Today it's perfectly normal. I don't have exact numbers but at least 50% of all sites pull in third party code. It really is bizarre to me that this became the norm.



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